Tag: public transportation

  • Future transbay tube fantasy planning

    Recently there’s been talk of building a second rail tube under the San Francisco Bay. This new tube would be larger than the existing transbay tube and serve two major purposes: If we put aside the question of when to build this second crossing the next question is where? There’s no pressing reason to build…

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  • Salesforce Transit Center, opening day

    After years of construction it seemed like the new Transbay Salesforce Transit Terminal Center would never open; and yet today, it finally did… sort of. It’s clearly unfinished, and construction workers were still there today (a Saturday) working on the gondola. The underground train platforms weren’t open, and no physical work has been done to…

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  • Muni needs signal priority

    The SFMTA recently announced some big changes to the messy intersection at Church and Duboce, which is a notorious mess for Muni Metro, the 22 line, bicycles, private vehicles, and pedestrians. Streetsblog covered the changes in depth in an excellent article. One strange aspect to the renovation which Streetsblog mentions is that there will still…

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